Consider the Following Pseudocode That Returns an Optional Value from a Method

question 36

Multiple Choice

Consider the following pseudocode that returns an Optional value from a method:
if there is a result // line 1
return the result // line 2
else
return an empty result // line 3
Assume that the variable result represents an object reference to the result to be returned as Optional.Replace line 2 with the Java code to return the result.

• A)return result.get();
• B)return Optional.empty();
• C)return Optional<result>;
• D)return Optional.of(result);

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